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Five Key Metro Principles That Unbleached Touch Enabled UI

Microsoft’s Metro design principles are rapidly becoming an industry standard on touch-enabled devices, including PCs, tablets, and smartphones phones. The technology is incredibly powerful, even for small screens. The intuitive UI topography and large fonts are replacing complicated menus and extensive descriptions.

SCOM “Best Practices” articles compilation

This is a compilation of useful links over SCOM from the standpoint of my consulting expirience. It always appears to be convenient to have such list in touch.

CSMCollector service becomes inactive and doesn’t process requests after enabling 32-bit applications in “OperationsManagerCsmCollector v4.0” app pool configuration

Heads up: some issue I faced during recent CSM monitoring implementation. Working on remediation with Microsoft. Still, beware.

How to enable CSM monitoring supporting definite browsers types?

In this article I will demonstrate how to configure CSM monitoring working with non-IE browsers. Note: this is not officially supported but I see some people having success with it.

How to deploy and configure a standalone CA server in your domain

A quick visual guide on deploying a stand-alone Certificate Authority (CA) server for your test lab. This will come handy if you are looking to monitor guest servers deployed in DMZ, Amazon EC2 or anywhere else beyond your domain.

Configuring SCOM 2012 APM settings with Golden copy

In this article I will try to cover some aspects of APM monitoring configuration through Golden copy. The configuration steps are demonstrated with easy to get example.

VIAcode AzureAppSpy for Windows Phone: how we did it

How to know when client-side monitoring has been disabled because of some filter?

In this article I’ll show how to check when the client-side monitoring has been disabled by uX filtering using uX traceLog. This is one of the most common steps to troubleshoot uX monitoring configuration.

Exception monitoring in AVIcode 5.7

This article discusses the general exceptions monitoring configuration including “All Exceptions” / “Critical Exceptions” check box, Exception Tracking and Exception Handlers options explanation.

Collecting custom performance counters with AVIcode 5.7

This article covers questions over how to configure custom counters collection and where you can check out them in SEViewer as well as how to transfer counters to Advisor in order to make them available for AVIcode reports.